Theater-goers also enjoyed dramas brought by theater troupes from Taiwan and South Korea at some theaters in Beijing.

Besides, some 110 modern drama artists who have made outstanding contribution to Chinese modern drama were honored at the Chinese Modern Drama Centenary Celebration Meeting. From April 6th to 10th, an academic seminar was held in Beijing to discuss the historical achievement, the future and artistic development of modern Chinese drama. Special stamps and books on Chinese modern drama were also launched this April.

Meanwhile, the Youth Lake Park of Beijing' Dong Cheng District had made into a theme park of modern drama. Memory steles, sculptures, digital museums and theatres were currently under construction.

The first modern Chinese drama was produced by some Chinese students in Japan in 1907, an adaptation of the American slave story "Uncle Tom's Cabin."

Pictorial Exhibition on Centennial Modern Chinese Drama

Beijing People's Art Theater (BPAT) celebrated its 55th anniversary June 12, with the inauguration of the first modern Chinese drama museum and the opening of The Pictorial Exhibition on Centennial Modern Chinese Drama.

Beijing People's Art Theater, better known as Renyi, is the longest-standing drama group in China. Mostly acclaimed for its realistic Beijing dialect plays, it is regarded as a living embodiment of new China's modern drama.